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The war on Southern food

By Dylan Byers

12/29/11 08:55 AM EST

The hosts on "Fox & Friends" this morning said that The New York Times "wants to eliminate classic Southern cooking." The context, not provided until after the commercial break, was a Wednesday article in the newspaper's Dining & Wine section that actually championed Southern farmers (and did not include an editorial calling for the elimination of classic Southern cooking), but included one line about "feedlot hams, cheap fried chicken and chains like Cracker Barrel" that seemed to set the alarm bells off at Fox.

An email sent in to Fox: "The last time I saw an issue of The New York Times, it was wrapped around a fish that was about to be fried."

And one of our own readers, from Atlanta, offered this via Twitter: "the NEW YORK Times will be eliminated long before Southern food will."